Re: [stella] MARIA - calling all 7800 programmers

[Ruffin Bailey <rufbo1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> While this mailing list is not so busy the added traffic would be a 
> problem, my big objection would be the archives. The ability to search 
> through the Stella list archives is a tremendous tool.

This is an excellent point.  When I'm Googling for "Visual Basic" 
now-a-days, it's awful hard to search for *just* VB6 or *just* VB.NET.  
Keeping everything on separate lists with separate search interfaces 
would be awful important.  Then you've got the two permanently 
separated in a machine-readable fashion.

> Eckhard Stolberg wrote:
> > I think it would be nice, if we could discuss 7800 programming here.
> > Being a dial-up user I prefer mailing-lists over web based forums.
>
> I second that.
>
> Maybe we could make an agreement that all 7800 only related posts start
> with something like [7800]. So everybody who wants to can easily filter
> those messages.

The only problem there is when someone doesn't.  I mean, logically 
you're creating the "other list" with a bitflag, but the bitflag's only 
human-readable and human-enforceable.  Why not get Biglist to start up 
the suggested "Maria" group, or head on over to Yahoo Groups and set 
something up -- then you could even add digest delivery (if you like 
that kinda thing; I do: http://mywebpages.comcast.net/digestHandler 
;^D) to keep the traffic in your inbox to a minimum.  That said, I also 
prefer mailing lists to bulletin boards.

At any rate, as a dba I've always favored keeping distinctions 
machine-enforceable.

$0.02

Ruffin Bailey

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